...and one more bit

This picture is from April this year, a bit of old 50s campus left lying around presumably with some ultimate destination in someone's mind. This is the western edge of the new student precinct which was the site of the Alice Hoy building - various decorative elements of that building got incorporated into the new one. 

Update: I note that a row of these have been installed outside the walkway around the building. I appreciate they are probably new but surely modelled on something much older. 

 

more campus art

Yep so Farrago in the late 1950s was thrilled by the new art being commissioned by university administration and never missed an opportunity to show its excitement. Here's an example. 

Farrago 24 March 1959 p.4. There were probably other responses. But how ho-hum is this now. And then there's...

Annoyingly, I failed to record the date/page on the above. I'm pretty sure it's 17 Mar 1959 p. 1. Sorry. Anyway, this statue was clearly a major thrill to everyone on campus in '59. 

This is Farrago 17 March 1959 p. 2. Below cartoon is from 12 May 1959 p. 6. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. 

Don't even start me on Tom Bass' mural for Wilson Hall. They really laid into that. 

what a relief

 From Farrago 21 March 1958 p. 3. A few weeks later (11 April) Farrago reported that the bas-relief was removed ('and smashed in the process'!) and a version of the drawing above, sans caption, substituted in its place. People were so weird back then.